Customers and Stories

Trusted globally

NAPA is trusted by the global maritime industry already over decades. Nearly 450 customer organizations, such as shipyards, design consultancies, and authorities, rely on our solutions for ship design. More than 2500 naval architects use NAPA daily in their design work. Our customers have improved their productivity and gained a competitive advantage and benefit by integrating NAPA into their design processes.

NAPA customers using the solutions for ship design

Marine industry segments

Trusted by several marine industry segments, from cruise to navy and offshore industries

User organizations

Hundreds of organizations using our solutions for ship design, located in six continents and in more than 40 countries

User community

Thousands of active users in the NAPA user community, many of them meeting annually in NAPA User Meeting and NAPA User Seminars

Case studies and success stories

Hyundai Heavy Industries, South Korea

The world’s largest shipyard, Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), implemented NAPA Steel’s 3D model-based ship structural design tool across its Basic Hull Design Department. This marked a paradigm shift for HHI – it facilitated a move away from 2D drawing-based process.

Fincantieri, Italy

Fincantieri is one of the world’s leading shipyards. Since 1995 it has used NAPA to streamline its design process, with the partnership is still driving innovation today.

How has Fincantieri used NAPA Steel to stay ahead of the competition for 18 years?

Namura Shipbuilding, Japan

The Technology Development Centre of Namura Shipbuilding, which oversees the development of concept design of standard vessels, uses NAPA when establishing an effective concurrent design process between the different disciplines.

Fosen Design and Solutions, Norway

By integrating NAPA software into its initial design phase, Fosen Design and Solutions could easily take its models from 2D to 3D, laying the foundations for incomparable agility, fewer errors, and a smoother overall design process.

Aker Arctic, Finland

NAPA brings unrivaled efficiency to the novel ice-class vessel design process at Aker Arctic.

Møre Maritime, Norway

Norwegian ship consulting company focusing on wellboat designs found NAPA software to meet their needs for an integrated solution for advanced stability and regulation support.

MV Werften, Germany

How to manage design complexity for Genting’s cruise ships with NAPA Steel

Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering, South Korea

DSME chose NAPA Steel thanks to its transformative effect on the ship design process, following an extensive benchmarking process involving multiple vendors.

NAPA User Community

NAPA users meet annually in NAPA User Meeting and NAPA User Seminars, organized in Finland, Japan, China, and South Korea.

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